I received this email from a personal injury lawyer in Maryland this morning: I have an MIA complaint involving Allstate offered the number provided by Colossus and now, of course, refuses to produce any Colossus manuals, etc. Do you have some useful Colossus materials? I don’t. Maryland’s bad faith law…
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decided whether a debtor’s claims for legal relief that arose after the confirmation but before the completion of his plan to pay creditors are property of the estate, under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. Here, after the debtors’ joint Chapter 13 plan was…
Back in January, I wrote about Allstate’s ongoing war with the state of Florida (and Missouri) in which it arrogantly racked up more than $4 million in fines for refusing to turn over documents they received orders to produce and which the insurance commission requested in Florida. On Friday, Allstate…
CNN reports on an 18-month investigation into minor-impact soft-tissue injury crashes around the country. The report confirms what auto accident lawyers in Baltimore and around the country have known for quite some time: the insurance companies defend these cases not based on the value of the cases, but to discourage…
The Maryland Court of Appeals last month issued another opinion interpreting Maryland Insurance Code Annotated Section 19-509 in State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. DeHaan. Here, the Plaintiff’s night got off to a great start: the Baltimore Ravens won their first Super Bowl over the New York Giants, a…
A Virginia lawyer wrote me last night asking about a client that was injured in a motor vehicle accident in Maryland. Apparently, the car accident was a by-product of road rage that reached a point where the Defendant arguably intentionally rear-ended the Plaintiff’s car. The Defendant apparently admits positioning his…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals had occasion this month to consider what makes up a resident relative for uninsured motorist coverage in Mundey v. Erie Insurance Group. Here, The Maryland intermediate appellate court found a Prince George’s County man who had been living with his grandmother in Waldorf, Maryland…
The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, ruled last month in Dolores Kleiber v. State Farm Ins. Co. that the trial court properly entered summary judgment in favor of State Farm. This case involved in a lawsuit filed by a State Farm insured seeking a declaratory judgment that entitled the…
The burden is on the plaintiff in Maryland in an uninsured or underinsured motorist claim to prove that the negligent car, truck, or motorcycle was uninsured or underinsured. The attorney’s inability to establish a lack of insurance is fatal to an uninsured motorist claim. Some jurisdictions, such as Texas, realize…
The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland ruled last week in Shafer v. Interstate Automobile Ins. Co. that a motorcycle passenger – who was injured when the motorcycle on which she was riding blew out a tire – is not entitled to uninsured motorist coverage because she failed to meet…